WALKING ALONG THE ALPINE TRACK

In 1996 Jono and Libby walked along the Alpine Track from Walhalla to Canberra

Click on the thumbnails and see their photos of their journey.

Setting off

Libby climbing

Idyllic campsiteat Black River

Libby on top of the world

Autumn coloursof the snow gums

The CrossCut Saw

Earlyone morning

Snow Gumon King Billy

Jono and Libby walked from
Melbourne to Canberra along
the Alpine track. They prepared
for it beforehand by dropping food
in strategic places along the way -
this only took a day or two to do,
but then doing the actual walk took
two months! They were far from
civilisation for most of the time and
we only heard from them twice...the
first time was when they happened
upon a (very rare) road and were
sitting there writing letters when
along came a car! They stopped it
and asked the occupants to post their
letters!! The second time was when
they arrived at the township (winter
ski resort) of Mt Hotham and were
able to phone us. Actually they
arrived there expecting to do a little
replenishment of stocks and were a bit
taken aback to find everything
closed....they had completely
lost track of time and had no
idea it was the Easter weekend!